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[font "Times New Roman"]I had left work early on Wed and the plan was to drive down to Roosevelt UT to meet some relatives we had been talking about camping for a while. His health has not been the best lately so we wanted to make sure we had a chance to get down and spend some time with them. The plan was to drive down spend the night at their home and the girls could ride some horses before we left the next morning. [/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]But as luck would have it while they were gathering up the last few items to take up my wife and I had our first real medical scare with my daughter. It seems she had fallen off the trampoline she was jumping on and hurt her wrist. She was crying badly and we debated if we should go to the hospital, I figured better safe than sorry and we went down to the ER. I am sure glad we did her wrist was broken and in a bad place to break it.[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]Bella waiting for the DR[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]Coming back from the drugs that put her under:[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]Just to be safe she was a little wobbly:[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]Well it looks like it is now going to be a 3-day trip instead so lets make the best of it. My relative’s truck broke down ½ way up the mountain so I had to pull two 5th wheels up the mountain I began to wonder what else was going to go wrong this trip. The drive in had a lot of overhanging pine trees so we have some new redneck pinstripe to try and buff out of the trailer. Finally got camp set up:[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]Bella and cousins:[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]Resting the wrist watching a movie:[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]The ladies taking the afternoon to knit:[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]One night around the campfire:[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]Sorry about the lack of food pics as you can imagine I was not thinking about how the post would look at this point. It finally was my day to go on the long ride to the “secret” alpine lake where all the fish are 20” plus it is only a 2 hour rock fest ride going 6 mph ending up riding down a stream for 30 minutes piece of cake. The ATV rules up there are so screwy one place you can ride then ½ mile down you can’t ride then in a mile you can. Because part of it is Indian land we chose to trailer up and not take a chance. [/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"] We finally made it to the lake:[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]There was no luck for any of us that evening even with me doing my best boulder hopping routine to get to the other side of the lake. I missed the highlight of the ride the lone white wolf they saw come down to the lake to get a drink. The next morning I was determined to catch something for my 9 hours worth of driving to get here. I managed to find a place to get my boat to the waters edge and me and the wife snuck away for a couple of hours. Pay dirt even if nothing was over 11” but nice alpine brookies that loved the blue fox and the pop/gear worm combo:[/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]There was plenty of four-wheeler riding but ly only my family elected to wear helmets. The fun part was that I got my mother in law on a wheeler for the first time and she loved it! [/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"]One of the really cool things they wanted me to see was something called the ice cave that was no further than 100 yards from our camp. It is said that the Indians used the cave to store meat in the summer to keep it cold. It was the strangest thing I have seen when you got about six feet out of the cave’s opening you could feel the rocks getting cold. When you entered the cave it was like winter temps and there was even ice in the cave. My daughter was scared at first but then though it was pretty cool.[/font]
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That was the last major outing for our family for the year. This weekend we are staying closer to home going fishing for a day, riding wheelers for a day, going to lagoon, and finally using that free golf pass I have had for a year.
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Nice report Craig, too bad your girl got hurt, hopefully she will heal quickly. I have fished that lake a few years ago when we were up there during the muzzleloader hunting deer. I have never been to the cave in your report but have been to one that is just like it up in Idaho. The guide at that cave said the cold and ice was caused by an venturi effect as wind went threw a small opening or some such story. Thanks for posting your report. WH2
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the old ice caves. great deer lockers. lol mosbey is a sweet mountain. how many bucks did you see. did you drive up to cliff lake? or up and then down i should say. great grouse hunting as well/ and the brookies are great to eat.[fishin]
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